Basketball Coaching Quotes - Page 10

• What does this program/team need this week?

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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• In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Player, Coaching

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• Hearing improves with PRAISE!

  Mark Gottfried

  Basketball, Coaching, Hearing

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• The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Team

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• The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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• ...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Play

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• We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Coaching, Stuff

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• Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Games, Play

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• There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.

  Tom Landry

  Basketball, Teamwork, Strong

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• Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Cutting, Player

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• In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the possessions are gained by rebounding and after an opponent's score. Twenty percent come from opponents's error, and only 5 percent of the possessions come from steals and interceptions. A study of the way ball possessions are gained makes it seem highly impractical to base pressure defense on interceptions and steals.

  Ralph Miller

  Basketball, Games, Errors

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• We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an automatic switch. If a blind pick is set on one of our defensive players, there has to be a switch. To play good pressure defense, you have to use the switch.

  Ralph Miller

  Basketball, Simple, Player

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• When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position as the ball is being received. When the ball is received, the defense should discourage the pass into the post area. The hands should be kept up. Keeping the hands up reduces a tendency to foul and allows a player to move his hands quickly.

  Ralph Miller

  Basketball, Moving, Player

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• Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.

  Pete Newell

  Basketball, Team, Responsibility

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• I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage shots; control everything within 18 feet; eliminate second shots; no easy baskets; point the ball on all long shots; and prevent the ball from going into the pivot man.

  Adolph Rupp

  Basketball, Believe, Men

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• Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner.

  Bo Schembechler

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily.

  Larry Shyatt

  Basketball, Coaching, Want

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• To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Successful, Player

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• Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Fun, Player

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• In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Loyalty, Giving

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.192, Crown Business

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• Put the Team Before Yourself.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.123, Crown Business

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• Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.

  Tara VanDerveer

  Basketball, Writing, Ideas

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• The key to the fast break is every one running hard for their teammates.

  Paul Westhead

  Basketball, Running, Keys

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• Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet.

  Tex Winter

  Basketball, Moving, Play

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